REVIEW: First Love: Essays on Friendship by Lilly Dancyger May 12, 2024 [This collection] begins with a title essay so moving, complex, and powerful that I had to put the book down just to let the work settle… Read the full story →
REVIEW: A Petit Mal: A Mother’s Healing Love Song by Ana María Caballero January 8, 2024 The prize-winning memoir pushes the boundaries of the creative nonfiction form as a mother examines her child’s seizure disorder. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Small Off Things: Meditations from an Anxious Mind by Suzanne Farrell Smith May 16, 2023 In lyrical prose, the collection of brief essays examines subjects both commonplace and profound. Read the full story →
REVIEW: The Preventorium: A Memoir by Susan Annah Currie February 15, 2023 A long-forgotten American health crisis caused by tuberculosis is examined in a memoir of a childhood forever changed by the disease. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Ways of Walking: Essays, edited by Ann deForest August 10, 2022 The essay collection offers a brief walk in someone else’s shoes, placing the walker into wider contexts of family, society and landscape. Read the full story →
REVIEW: A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form by Brenda Miller June 6, 2022 Focusing on form, process, and hybridity, creative nonfiction guru Brenda Miller offers guidance and inspiration for writing the lyric essay. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life by Suzanne Ohlmann March 7, 2022 The memoir uniquely explores the space between the facts of our lives and our shadow selves. Read the full story →
REVIEW: South of Somewhere: Wine, Food, and the Soul of Italy by Robert V. Camuto January 11, 2022 In a memoir focusing on place, wine is the unifying theme as the author traces the changes in Southern Italy, his ancestral home. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays by Megan Harlan October 8, 2021 The memoir in essays excavates all the layers of what home is from the perspective of someone whose childhood home was never one place. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Face: A Memoir by Marcia Meier August 2, 2021 Reconstruction by surgery in Face aligns beautifully with reconstruction of memory and personal history through writing, Read the full story →